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Latest News - December 2014
- Our Prayers Have Been Answered! 350HP Ford Focus RS Heading to U.S. Streets
- Analysts See Warning Signs In 'Disappointing' Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Sales
- Sony Cyberattack Prompts FBI To Warn U.S Companies Of Iranian Hackers
- NHTSA-Funded ‘End DUI’ App Tells You If You’re Too Drunk To Drive But Is It A False Sense Of Security?
- Google Cardboard VR, Possibly The Ultimate Geek Stocking Stuffer, Gets An App Update And SDK
- Wal-Mart Hacks $50 Off Already Discounted iPhones For The Holidays
- Facebook Kicks Microsoft Bing To The Curb
- U.S. Schools, Libraries Receiving $1.5B From FCC To Upgrade Broadband Access
- Google Puts MPAA On Ignore After Receiving Snarky Response To Anti-Piracy Efforts
- The Pirate Bay Rises From The Ashes As "Old Pirate Bay"
- Seagate Bulks Up With $260 8TB 'Archive' HDD
- Lamborghini Targets The Filthy Rich With $6,000 Android Smartphone
- Surprise! Nintendo Sold Over 700,000 Amiibo Figures In The U.S., Makes A Killing
- Russia’s Internet Crackdown Prompts Google To Pack Its Bags
- Google Posts List Of Top Android Apps In 2014, Shows Desire To Get Fit
- Amazon App Removed From Google Play Store Due To Shady Business Tactics
- Facebook Shuts Door on 'Dislike' Button, Advertisers Breathe Sigh Of Relief
- Microsoft Pegs January 21 For "Next Chapter of Windows 10"
- YouTube To Allow Creation of 6-Second GIFs Directly From Videos
- Samsung Readies Snapdragon 810 Brain Transplant For Galaxy Note 4
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All News for December 2014
The hot hatch market is about to get a whole lot hotter. U.S. enthusiasts have plenty of relatively powerful hatchbacks to choose from these days with entries ranging from the Mini Cooper S to the Fiat 500 Arbarth to the Ford Focus ST. The...
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is another success story for Activision. The latest installment has helped advance the franchise to grossing $10 billion in sales to date and, according to Activision, Advanced Warfare is the number one...
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U.S. businesses have been advised to be on high alert as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns of a highly sophisticated Iranian hacking operation targeting various firms around the world. It's the same operation that cyber...
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In an effort to curb drunken driving, the state of Maryland has released an app that helps people decide whether they are sober enough to drive. ENDUI (pronounced “End DUI”) is free for Android and iOS platforms and was launched this week...
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What at first seemed like a “You’ve got to be kidding me” contraption from Google is actually turning out to be quite a surprise breakout for the search giant. Google announced this week that over 500,000 Cardboard virtual reality headset...
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If you’ve been eying Apple’s iPhone 6 and haven’t yet taken the plunge, Wal-Mart is offering a holiday promotion that might prompt you to get off your lazy butt. The retail giant normally sells the iPhone 6 for $179 with a new two-year...
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Facebook is improving its search functionality, resulting in the addition of some features (like Graph Search beta) and the removal of Web search results. Those search results, which typically appeared when a user searched for something (or someone) not on Facebook, were powered by Microsoft...
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U.S. schools and libraries are about to receive $1.5 billion in additional funding for broadband Internet, thanks to the FCC. The money will bolster the Universal Service Fund (also known as E-Rate), which helps schools across the country...
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Google's efforts to thwart piracy and appease organizations like the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) are pretty much non-stop. It involves removing millions of infringing links from search on a weekly basis, and more...
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It turns out that it's incredibly difficult to keep an online pirate ship down, even after you've sunk one. Say what? Bear with us while we explain what we mean by that. As you know, the world's most popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay (TPB), was taken offline last week following a raid by...
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Have huge storage needs and don't mind making some sacrifices to score suitable drives at a great price? If so, you'll want to turn your attention to Seagate's just-announced 'Archive HDD' series, one that offers densities of 5TB, 6TB, and 8TB. That's right - 8TB. And a $260 8TB at...
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When I think of Lamborghinis, I think of flashy automobiles that are as much about making an in-your-face visual statement as they are about clipping apexes and hurtling you and your passenger to near (or surpassing) 200 mph. But...
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It appears Nintendo has a surprise hit on its hands, which would explain why the company's Amiibo toy figures are so darn hard to find. Turns out they're selling like hotcakes. Or to be more specific, sales of Amiibo toys are approximately...
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Few technologies make regulation-happy government officials itch like the Internet. While Spain has been garnering headlines for taxing Google News, Russia has introduced Internet laws designed to keep data about Russian users in Russia. Google now plans to close its engineering presence in...
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We're fast approaching the finish line for 2014, and with less than three weeks remaining before it's time to pin up a new calendar, it's a good time to reflect on the past 12 months. Google made it easy for Android users to do exactly...
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It looks as though Amazon has been up to some shenanigans with its main app on Google Play. The online retailer launched a hidden and functional app store inside of its Android application, which resulted in Google removing it from the...
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The question of whether to add a “dislike” button just won’t go away for Facebook, in part because the company hasn’t aggressively shot the idea down. This week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg closed the book on the issue by saying...
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Rather than debate what's good or bad about Windows 8, let's just all agree that it failed to capture the collective audience that Microsoft hoped it would. Despite big ambitions, it was just last month that Windows 8 and 8.1 combined finally overtook Windows XP in market share, though it...
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Have you ever sat down and thought to yourself, "Self, what the Internet really needs are more animated GIFs!" Probably not, but brace yourself for a deluge of GIFs in the coming months anyway as YouTube rolls out a new feature that will...
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is no slouch in performance — as you can tell from our recent review when you can check out here — but Samsung is already looking to add some additional performance and 64-bit capabilities to its popular...
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Facebook has over 300 million reasons why it can justify acquiring Instagram, the photo and video sharing app that now has more users than Twitter. That's an impressive feat, but if you're thinking Twitter co-founder Evan Williams is...
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Lenovo's Yoga 3 Pro 2-in-1 ultrabook has made a bit of a splash as of late, from appearing in a number of holiday shopping-infused TV spots, to flash prank comparisons tricking unwitting mall shoppers into thinking they got framed for...
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